Walter Young (athlete)
Walter Young was a snowshoe racer and runner from Quebec, Canada.He won the 1937 Boston Marathon in a time of 2:33:20 during unseasonably hot conditions.[2] Young defeated the second place runner, John A. Kelley, by over six minutes.[3] Upon his wife's death in 1996 he relocated to Mission, British Columbia to be with his son.This biographical article relating to Canadian athletics and track and field is a stub.